The Chicken or the Egg? 2. The Cooking of Eggs
There is reason in roasting of eggs! ~~~ James Boswell, Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides In nineteenth-century America, …
Tag Archives: English Cooking
To the Queen’s Taste: A Brief Meditation on Written Recipes, Part III
Carrying on our examination of the written recipe and its significance in what usually was an oral culture (in more …
Cooks of the British Raj: In the Shadows of the Cantonments
Moonlight, shadows, and frangipani fluttering in air rich with the smell of curry — many people today might harbor such …
Reveling in Books: The Garden Cottage Diaries
Most of the time, I judge food by its looks and books by their covers. Sorry, but give me a …
“The White (Wo)Man’s Burden”: Household Management in the Colonies (With Bibliography)
European women who lived in nineteenth- and twentieth-century foreign outposts sought authoritative voices to guide them through the challenges of …
Celebrate Colonial American Cooking: Cookbooks for Thanksgiving and Christmas
Want to celebrate American food history and ingenuity this year? The great state of Virginia gave birth to eight U.S. …
A PASSAGE TO INDIA, REVISITED … SORT OF (AND BOOKSTORES)
For those lucky souls living in one of the larger cities of the eastern United States, bookshops purveying only cookbooks …
EARLIEST ENGLISH COOKBOOK, FORME OF CURY, TO BE DIGITIZED
Yippee! Another ancient cookbook to be digitized so that all of us food history lovers can wallow in the old …
